
Letter From Britain
Simon Firth brings UK music news straight from the Queen Mother’s bosom.
Letter From Britain

BOPS GO SYNTH!
April 1982

Midnight At The Oasis
August 1981

DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUMBLINGS
December 1980

PARTY GAMING WITH THE JAGS
October 1980

NEW BLUES FOR POSTMODERNISTS
September 1980

SONGS THAT AREN’T FUNNY
July 1980

FEAR OF REPTILES
May 1980

COUNTING FLOWERS ON THE WALL
April 1980

TOO LATE FOR TEARS
February 1980

Pretty Vacant
December 1979

Mods Recycled
August 1979

Punk Has Risen From The Grave
June 1979

Waiting For The End Of The World
May 1979

Stiffing The Colonies
April 1979

Goodbye To All That
March 1979

Wish I Was There
December 1978

Living Up To Bowie
November 1978

Diary Of A Nobody
October 1978

The Shapes Of Things To Come
July 1978

Never Mind The Bollocks— It's Christmas!
February 1978

Growing Up Absurd
January 1978

We’re Left, They’re Wrong, He”s Gone
December 1977

Queen Of The Silver Squalour
September 1977

Stuck in the Grooves With the Bourgeois Blues
August 1977

Who Needs Robert Morley?
July 1977

IAN HUNTER FIGHTS BOREDOM (AND PASSES FOR DAVID BYRON)
June 1977

How Low Can You Get?
May 1977

Anarchy In The UK
March 1977

Punks, Weeds And The Irish Question
February 1977

Goodbye To All That
January 1977

August Vacation Blues
November 1976

Innocents Abroad
September 1976

Is Disco The Real Avant-Garde?
August 1976

The Walrus Was Ringo!
July 1976

Q: Why Do Limeys Love C&W?
June 1976

Lively Up Yourself!
April 1976

Casing The Promised Land
March 1976

If It’s Tuesday (or Wednesday or Thursday or...) This Must Be The Bar
January 1976

Flattened By The Bay City Rollers
November 1975

Blood On The Aristocrats
October 1975

God Save The Grateful Dead, Or Someone Like Them
June 1975

All Eyes Turn To America
April 1975

Why Flash-Rock Is More Cosmic Than Ever
February 1975

Musical Choirs, Odds and Ends
December 1974

Something Might Happen
November 1974

Thank God It’s Not Summer (Anymore)
October 1974

Trouble, Trouble
July 1974

Of Revivals & Ronson
June 1974

What’s the Ugliest Part of YOUR Bodg?
May 1974

No Time To Weep And Moan
April 1974

Peculiarities of the English
February 1974

Micky & The Poor Boys-Fourth Time Around
January 1974

Notes From Nowhere
November 1973

Rock a doodle doo Or Time takes a cigarette
August 1973

Get On Whille You Can At Twelve Or Never
June 1973

Let’s Drink To The Hard Working People
April 1973

Get Down And Get With It
March 1973

Elected: A Letter for the Pig
January 1973

Everybody’s in Show-biz Everybody’s a Star
December 1972

Keep On Runnmg Politics And Its Discontents
November 1972

Magic Moments Catch A Falling Star
October 1972

Join Together With The Band
September 1972

Devil or Angel?
August 1972

Notes On T. Rex
July 1972